How Snowflake’s New AI Agents Are Transforming Data Workflows

Snowflake announced new AI agents at the Snowflake Summit 2025 on June 3, designed to help enterprises solve common problems between data and business activities, making AI and ML workflows more connected and reliable.

New features include Snowflake Intelligence, an upcoming public preview powered by large language models from Anthropic and OpenAI, which provides a natural‑language experience for querying both structured and unstructured data via Snowflake Openflow, compiling information from spreadsheets, documents, images, and databases.

Snowflake Intelligence can generate visualizations, suggest actions, and access third‑party knowledge through Cortex Knowledge Extensions, which will be fully launched on the Snowflake Marketplace (https://www.snowflake.com/en/product/features/marketplace/).

SnowConvert AI, released earlier, expands Snowflake’s AI capabilities; its preview Cortex AISQL uses generative AI to help teams extract insights from diverse data types using SQL and AI‑driven pipelines.

The company highlighted use cases such as enriching customer forms with chat logs, linking sensor readings to inspection photos, and merging sales data with social‑media sentiment, enabling analysts to classify images, extract insights from call records, and detect anomalies.

CData Software introduced the no‑code Snowflake Integration Accelerator, a data‑integration tool that can reduce integration build time by up to 90%, providing real‑time CDC‑based data ingestion and three toolkits—Data Ingestion, Real‑time Access, and Cortex AI Integration—for automated pipelines and seamless Snowflake data access.

The Data Ingestion toolkit accelerates Snowflake data capture tenfold across 270+ sources (APIs, databases, SaaS) and supports external tables, Iceberg tables, and staging.

The Real‑time Access toolkit offers native integration with Microsoft tools such as SSAS, SSRS, and SSIS, as well as Salesforce via Lightning Connect, enabling seamless Snowflake data access throughout the Salesforce ecosystem.

The Cortex AI Integration toolkit provides instant AI‑ready data pipelines from any enterprise source, supports programmatic orchestration, agent models, and CDC for up‑to‑date data in Cortex AI‑driven workflows.